[R] lattice: How to increase space between ticks and labels of z-axis?

[Marius Hofert]

Dear Peter,

nice approach! 
Of course it's a bit tedious because you have to specify where the ticks are drawn yourself. But it solves the problem. 

Thanks!

Marius

On 2011-03-04, at 01:32 , P Ehlers wrote:

> Marius Hofert wrote:
>> Dear expeRts,
>> How can I increase the space between the ticks and the labels in the wireframe plot
>> below? I tried some variations with par.settings=list(..) but it just didn't work.
> 
> Marius,
> 
> I tried setting the 'distance' parameter, but that was less
> than satisfactory. One way is to modify the labels appropriately:
> 
> z_at <- seq(2000,10000,2000)
> z_labs <- paste(z_at, "    ", sep="")
> 
> which tacks on some spaces, and then plot:
> 
> wireframe(z~grid[,1]*grid[,2],
>  aspect=1,
>  scales = list(arrows = FALSE,
>                z = list(at = z_at, lab = z_labs)
>  ),
>  zlab = list("z", hjust = 3),
>  ylab = list(rot = -40),
>  xlab = list(rot = 30)
> )
> 
> Peter Ehlers
> 
>> Many thanks,
>> Marius
>> library(lattice)
>> u <- seq(0, 1, length.out=20)
>> grid <- expand.grid(x=u, y=u)
>> z <- apply(grid, 1, function(x) 1/(x[1]*x[2]+0.0001))
>> wireframe(z~grid[,1]*grid[,2], aspect=1, scales=list(col=1, arrows=FALSE))
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